Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk’s private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year.

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        I think ActivityPub states that you must follow a user for their posts to federate, but Lemmy currently doesn’t give a way to follow users only communities, so it will probably eventually work

        (I think technically communities are fake users that retweet/boost the posts to them?)

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          Communities are Actors in AP with type “Group”, and in Lemmy they’re automated to Announce anything posted to them to all followers. Users are also Actors with type “User”. I think the word Actor is intentionally used in the spec to avoid people thinking they’re meant to represent actual people. In order for us to see elonjet here the account would have to either tag a Lemmy community or reply directly to a Lemmy user’s comment.

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        Awesome, thank you!

        I didn’t see any content when I tried it before posting, so I figured to just leave it out. You’re right, though. Hopefully, as Lemmy evolves, we’ll have a way to follow or “subscribe to” Mastodon users like we do communities.

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        You can follow Lemmy posts/communities from Mastodon, but not the other way round as of now.

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    I guarantee you if he puts a Zuckerberg tracker on Twitter, Elon won’t say shit about that one.

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      Are you implying he’s not actually a free speech absolutist and only said so for clout from his cult of worshipers?

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        The Elongated Muskrat would never say anything just for clout, obviously OP just doesn’t understand or appreciate his genius!

        /S in case it wasn’t obvious.

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    How exactly does this work within TOS I thought threads like most meta products lacks an official api

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      He may be doing it manually, it wouldn’t be the first time. When he first got banned from twitter and started publishing on Mastodon he was doing all the updates by hand for a while.

      Long term there are ways and means that it could be done via the html front end, it would probably take a little bit more monitoring but there seem to be plenty of people willing to help him!

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      We don’t need it. It annoys Elon, which makes it hilarious.

      If Elon just ignored it, and wasn’t a crybaby, then nobody would care about Elonjet.

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      It’s how plane tracking works, all flights are tracked in real time. Once the one he’s on has been pointed out you can track it on various apps and services.

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          It is just returning the favour. These tech billionaires hoover up so much of our data, it only seems fair that we publicise their publically available data too.

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            Fair enough, looks like I don’t hate him to that level then as I still don’t see the point in wasting time to do something just because Elon seems to hate it and I certainly won’t let him live in my head rent-free.

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              Considering the massive hissy fit he’s thrown over it, it sounds like it was worth the time to me.

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                Agreed. It’s worth watching that asshole be upset. I don’t see or think about it any other time, but it’s fun to see him frustrated

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              Then don’t. Nothing in the world compells you to follow this account or even think about it. The point is to demonstrate that even billionaires aren’t about the law.

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          I think it is in the public interest to know quite how much aviation fuel this plonker is singlehandedly burning through…

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          We don’t need it. Just like he doesn’t needs jets, yachts, multiple cars, houses, billions of dollars, tax loopholes.

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    See? Not everyone on social media is a bigot. Some of us hate rich people as much as you do, or at least as much as you would if you knew how shitty you have to be to people to become a billionaire.